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Category: Bee Breeding and Genetics

When you look into bee breeding and genetics you quickly realise how challenging it can be. Bees mate on the wing and queens mate with multiple drones. Controlling both the maternal and paternal lines is very tricky with honey bees.

DNA double helix
17 Dec 21 Walrus

Genetics

Photo by Braňo on Unsplash Genetic science has come on in leaps and bounds in…
Bee Breeding and Genetics
Apis mellifera mellifera
13 Apr 21 Walrus

Apis Musings by Walrus

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apis_mellifera_mellifera,_06.jpg I've been thinking about bees and beekeeping. Most people who know me have figured…
Bee Breeding and Genetics, Gear for Beekeeping
Math or Maths?
27 Oct 20 Walrus

Mating Mathematics

Math or Maths? In 2005 some researchers studying matings in the Hope Valley (England) found…
Bee Breeding and Genetics
Mike Palmer's Cell Builders
4 Aug 20 Walrus

Better Bees

Mike Palmer's Cell Builders Humans (and walruses) are part of the natural world. We are…
Bee Breeding and Genetics
Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park
11 Feb 19 Walrus

Bee Breeding: Life, uh…finds a way

Life finds a way It's a dog's life I have always struggled with the idea that there are…
Bee Breeding and Genetics
Mating apiary
12 Jun 18 Walrus

A Legendary Bee has Died

In the Winter of 2017, I met Murray McGregor, owner of Denrosa Apiaries, based in…
Bee Breeding and Genetics

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Steve Donohoe, Author of "Interviews with Beekeepers"

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